This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ... It is to be further considered, that the great proportion of free inhabitants of these colonies consist of emancipists from a similar condition of bondage. Of all these, one-third are Irish Catholics, of whom many, if I except those from the large cities, have been transported for the infringement of penal ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ... It is to be further considered, that the great proportion of free inhabitants of these colonies consist of emancipists from a similar condition of bondage. Of all these, one-third are Irish Catholics, of whom many, if I except those from the large cities, have been transported for the infringement of penal laws, for aggrarian offences, and minor delinquencies; whilst those from England are, with rare exceptions, punished for direct aggression on property or the person. As, however, there is no distinction in the degree of punishment, they become mingled, contaminated, and corrupted alike. They arrive in numbers of from two to three hundred in a ship, under the authority and superintendence of a surgeon of the royal navy. Thrown together for four months, with no occupation, they live over again their guilty joys and exciting hazards, devising new ones for the future. Their emulation, especially on board the English ships, is, to exhibit to admiration their accomplishments in wickedness--to prove the most diverting of their comrades by the clever recital of their past infamies--to enrich the efl'ect of the whole by the most profane and obscene language. Facts exhausted, imagination is ready with her teeming stores--thus they go on--incessantly applying the wliet-stone to their wit, and sharpening the edge of their guilty cunning. The day over, they are closed down at night under hatches, each rolled in his blanket, three, four, or more, placed together in one wooden crib--the seven years' prisoner couched with the convict for life--the petty thief with the murderer--the simple countryman with the gaol polluted felon, and the monster from the hulk. With such a mass of individuals crowded together so long a time, wonder not if you hear that the more...
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